Ships In Port

The Eagle Sibu, a 105,366 deadweight ship that was built in 1999 and is managed by AET Shipmanagement is in port at Pier 2.

The Overseas Shirley is kicking around too.

The Enrica Lexie is in port, but apparently has a malfunctioning transponder because it isn’t appearing on the live map of Portland harbor. The ship is an Aframax tanker that flies under the Italian flag  and is managed by the Teekay Corporation which has had a bit of a rough year despite transporting “10 percent of the world’s seaborne oil.“

This map “shows all the piracy and armed robbery incidents reported to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre during 2009.”

The Suezmax tanker, Genmar Hope, is at Pier 2. The tanker was built in 1999 by Daewoo and is owned by General Maritime (Portugal) which was recently fined for

making false statements to the U.S. Coast Guard and failing to maintain an accurate Oil Record Book designed to prevent pollution of the world’s oceans as required by United States and international law

According to the Department of Justice,

Engine room operations on-board large oceangoing vessels such as the Genmar Defiance generate large amounts of waste oil.  International and U.S. law prohibit the discharge of waste oil above 15 parts per million oil to water; which can be achieved by the proper operation of an oil-water separator.  The law also requires that all of the oil transferred onto, off of, or between tanks within a ship be recorded in the Oil Record Book so all the oil on a ship can be accounted for when the ship is inspected by the U.S. Coast Guard and other port state control authorities around the world.

For their negligence the company was fined $1 million – a seemingly small amount. However,

Chief Engineer Antonio Rodrigues was previously sentenced for the same violations on Feb. 10, 2009 to three months of confinement in a half-way house, a $500 fine, a special assessment of $200 and five years of probation.  First Engineer Cavadas was likewise sentenced on Feb. 10, 2009 to six months of confinement in a half-way house, a $500 fine, a special assessment of $200 and five years of probation.

Another all-around upstanding company – welcome to Portland.

The Overseas Sophie is over at Pier 2 and the Conti Agulhas is out in the harbor too. The latter is a relatively new ship that is operated by United Product Tankers which explains the gigantic lettering – “UPT” – on the side of the ship.

The Cozumel Cement is a cargo ship, so why was it at Pier 2?

Right now it is on it’s way to Hartford.

are out in the Harbor and Casco Bay:

The KRYMSK was built in 2003 and flies under the Liberian flag, though it is managed by Novoship, a Russian company. Novoship allows visitors to their website to send a message to a vessel. The Krymsk weighs in at 115,605 DWT and was named after a town in Russia.

The Sirius I is is headed to Searsport and is difficult to find information about, due to its name, which is similar to the Sirius Star – a Very Large Crude Carrier (way too big for Portland) that was hijacked and ransomed in 2008.

The Noreaster is also in Casco Bay, as is the Pinnacle Spirit, which is managed by US-based Teekay Shipping.

The Prisco Mizar is a 166,467 DWT (Suezmax) tanker that is operated by Primsork Shipping and is, according to the DNV, owned by Decom Shipping Limited, but I can’t find any information about the company. The Vladivostock Times reported on the launch of the ship in 2007.

The 2005-built, Suezmax tanker Heather Knutsen, owned by Knutsen O.A.S., and operated by Canship Ugland, is in port. I think the Ugland ships are some of the prettiest, as this flickr page suggests.

As for Knutsen O.A.S., here’s a Decmber “news update” from their website:

-The price of oil has been halved during a short period of time. For us this is a negative development since our customers are producing crude oil. At the moment the price hovers around 40 US $ a barrel. If it remain at this level, or drop to even lower levels, it would have serious consequences for Norway and the offshore business…How far down the price of oil will fall is hard to predict. But I do hope we will soon see prices around 70 $ a barrel, Seglem says.

Here’s hoping!

Also, the St. John’s Telegram reports that the crew of the Heather Knutsen had a nice Christmas celebration this year.

Lots of movement in the Harbor over the past two days.

Ebn Batutua and the Overseas Josefa Cameo (which was here on Feb. 18th) are at Pier 2, but the Siteam Neptun is lingering and the tanker New England is down at the other end of the harbor. Whew.

The Overseas J.C. was the scene of a deadly stabbing in 2005, when the captain was murdered a few miles off the Devon coast.